San Francisco Friend Artwork

Apologies it's been a long long time since I last posted/added any new artwork to my website, been quite busy over the summer so far with various things.

The following is a piece I have done for a really good friend of mine who yesterday moved to San Francisco, California, in the USA. Another one of my friends Fleur Terry whom is studying Printed Textiles and Surface Pattern Design BA at Leeds College of Art helped me make the piece, drawing the Tropicana & Alacatraz pieces whilst also helping with many decisions in the piece :)


So yeah here it is...

Robot Me.

This piece is done along with other illustrators in my class for a secret reason currently ;) Will update this post at a later date with the reasoning behind it but yeah, here is my interpretation of me as a robot...

Many influences in it from old retro toy robots, film/TV robots & various aspects of technology.

Great fun to do!

Freddie Mercury Sketch

Basically it's just what it says it is :) Fancied drawing something & the legendary Queen frontman Freddie Mercury was the outcome.

British Wildlife Postcards; River Birds - Kingfisher

I have decided to put upon myself a task to create a series of postcards based upon British Wildlife, be it butterflies, small mammals, amphibians/reptiles, river birds etc etc :)
Started with river birds & I aim to do five animals for each set as such, so for River Birds it shall be; Kingfisher, Swan, Mallard, Moorhen & Heron.

The following is the first of those five, the Common (Eurasian) Kingfisher with it's brightly coloured orange & blue feathers.

Gone for a nostalgic 70's feel with the colour scheme / textures / floral patterns & such like. Hope people like it! The floral pattern brushes were given to me on file by a friend & in all honesty I have no idea where they came from to give credit to the creator, apologies :S

Will most likely attempt the Heron one next over the next few days.

Mermaid

Done this piece to exhibit at my exhibition for college & possibly New Designer's in London. Very much inspired by the latest Pirates of the Caribbean; On Stranger Tides & the concept art for the mermaids. Couple of people have also said it looks like the strange creatures in the Harry Potter films in Hogwarts Lake, to which I definitely cannot disagree lol

Used a mixture of line art illustration, digital colouring & photo manipulation to create the piece.

Book Covers + Poster Finished

After a couple of months of work & a killer couple of days due to me leaving my sketchbook til last minute here is the final artwork for all the book covers & the Life of Pi poster :)

In alphabetical order...

Life of Pi - Coloured Line

Here is the line art for the Life of Pi piece, done in a more minimalistic way :)
Will upload the actual book cover shortly!